- Published: 4 August 2022
- ISBN: 9780099533313
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $29.99
V.
- Published: 4 August 2022
- ISBN: 9780099533313
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $29.99
A remarkable book
Sunday Telegraph
Screwballs chase alligators in sewers in a chaotic and worlwide chase for V., while literary styles, brilliant and bizarre, chase each other
Books and Bookmen
The book sails with majesty through caverns measureless to man. Few books haunt the waking or sleeping mind, but this is one
Time
Mr Pynchon writes with enormous skill and virtuosity
Times Literary Supplement.
[Pynchon] writes richer comedy than most card-carrying comic novelists, filling his eight novels with hilarious spoofs, outlandish characters, screwball dialogue and zany scenarios
Guardian
To read V. today is to experience Pynchon anew. Blast through the multilayered densities of Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day, and you have a young Cornell graduate, an engineer from Long Island, writing with an earnestness you might not have expected, about a world he could never recover
New Yorker
[Pynchon's] ambitions in V. are prodigious, enough to demand comparison less with Perelman than with the Joyce of the Circe episode of Ulysses
New York Review of Books 1963
The greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation
Ian Rankin, Guardian
A remarkable book
Sunday Telegraph
Screwballs chase alligators in sewers in a chaotic and worlwide chase for V., while literary styles, brilliant and bizarre, chase each other
Books and Bookmen
The book sails with majesty through caverns measureless to man. Few books haunt the waking or sleeping mind, but this is one
Time
Mr Pynchton writes with enormous skill and virtuosity
Times Literary Supplement.